What's the deal on Facebook friend requests?

[vvvvvvv]

This is the main reason I stay away, you said it dude.
I could see using it for business purposes.

Very few other places where you can narrow your advertising target down to 50 likely conversions out of a pool of 700M... and then have another ad tailored to appeal to another group of 50 or so... and so forth and so on...

 

[dugby]

When I was a kid the only computer of any value was the Univac. The keyboard filled one 50 foot by 60 foot office. The memory filled 6 buildings in Astoria New York. I learned Fortran 4 as my first language and Assembler as my second. The first small computer was the IBM 360. It filled a 15 by 20 foot room. My first computer that I owned was a Commadore 64. So I guess I really do not understand facebook in the way it is presented now... but if it were in Assembler language it would be very clear.

Haven't heard a Univac mentioned in a long time. I worked 1979-1981 building Univac computers in Roseville MN. Each CPU was the size of a small car only taller. There were a 1/4 million gold plated pins in each full system. Computers and business had a different relationship in those days. The computer changed things a lot but the networking technology and the offshoots from that have been more of a unforseen transformation of society than what the computer did. Facebook and all things computer these days are just a bunch of check boxes. All knowledge and no understanding. It is like they taught everyone math with only calculators and everyone would be dead in the water if calculators and facebook quit working for a week.

 

[rhodesbe]

Haven't heard a Univac mentioned in a long time. I worked 1979-1981 building Univac computers in Roseville MN. Each CPU was the size of a small car only taller. There were a 1/4 million gold plated pins in each full system. Computers and business had a different relationship in those days. The computer changed things a lot but the networking technology and the offshoots from that have been more of a unforseen transformation of society than what the computer did. Facebook and all things computer these days are just a bunch of check boxes. All knowledge and no understanding. It is like they taught everyone math with only calculators and everyone would be dead in the water if calculators and facebook quit working for a week.

Somewhere, some crotchety old settler is biatching about you and your helpless dependency on automobiles and flushing toilets.

 

[meatGrinder]

.... and flushing toilets.

Damn those flushing toilets, AND Facebook.

 

[SMS]

Somewhere, some crotchety old settler is biatching about you and your helpless dependency on automobiles and flushing toilets.

No kidding...we often talk about the firearms "Fuds" here, the same phenom exists with computers and social media. It's a tool, learn how to use it and use it wisely just like every other shiny new thing.

 

[dugby]

Somewhere, some crotchety old settler is biatching about you and your helpless dependency on automobiles and flushing toilets.

Thats funny !!!

I knew an old man and his wife about 80+ that still lived by themselves on the old farm place. We had a big ice storm a few years back that had everyones power out, so a friend of mine and I went to check on them. He quickly informed me that he had spent half his life without electricity and what was the big deal? I suspect he might well have had the perspective you are describing. These silly young whippersnappers. tssk tssk.....

 

[rhodesbe]

Thats funny !!!

I knew an old man and his wife about 80+ that still lived by themselves on the old farm place. We had a big ice storm a few years back that had everyones power out, so a friend of mine and I went to check on them. He quickly informed me that he had spent half his life without electricity and what was the big deal? I suspect he might well have had the perspective you are describing. These silly young whippersnappers. tssk tssk.....

My life knows no inconvenience compared to living 100 years ago.

 

[AKguy1985]

Every so often i get a friend request from a random person that I dont know and i just reject them. Then, when you reject their request it will ask if you know them. If you click no they cant try and friend you anymore.